Bug#512920: installation depending upon urgency
X-debbugs-cc: aptitude@packages.debian.org
Package: apt
Severity: wishlist
Gentlemen, one day there should be a way to use the "urgency" field. I
hereby present the following long term wishlist item.
Say a maintainer makes a minor change in a package, e.g., adding a
missing punctuation mark in some documentation, but will be going on a
long vacation soon, so pushes his changes to the repositories.
He wishes to say: "For those users installing the package for the first time,
by all means, get the latest package. But for those users merely
tracking the latest version via apt-get upgrade etc., downloading all
those bytes would really be a waste. Don't bother."
Anyway, it seems apt lacks functionality to differentiate the two
cases, or at least for the user to use the "urgency" field as seen in
the apt-listchanges messages.
Anyway, "just use the stable distribution" is not what we're talking
about here. This is not a sid vs. experimental, etc. issue.
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